Dolls' house
G. & J. Lines Ltd
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Wood, paper and glass
Measurements
1250 mm (width); 1310 mm (height); 550 mm (depth)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661760
Summary
A wooden three storey doll's house (circa 1900), made in a typical Edwardian villa style by G & J Lines. This house came with 48 pieces of furniture and furnishings (not on display and recorded separately as Mrs Hooley's doll's house and inventory numbers 668991 to 669046). It is painted white with details around the windows and doors picked out in gold. It is double fronted having a bay window at each side on each floor, ending in gables on the roof. The roof is covered in tile patterned paper. Each of the bay windows consists of a central arched window and two plain rectangular windows. The front door has two glazed panels in its upper half and has an arched canopy with supporting pillars whose lower halves are painted gold. The front step has a white and gold painted bollard at each side. Above the front door is a small balcony in front of hinged french doors, each having a single plain rectangular glazed panel. Above this is an arched window on the second floor. This has a 'To Let' label stuck inside. The house opens on hinges, two thirds to the left and the other third to the right. This right hand portion is held fastened by a screw and the whole house can be moved around on castors. Inside there are six main rooms, one behind each bay window. The staircase runs up the centre of the building with a small balustrade on the top floor. There is a door to each room from the staircase. All rooms have paper on the walls and floor - much of this has been affected by damp. There is a piece of dark red velvety fabric on the floor of the first-floor right hand room. Each room has a wooden white-painted fireplace with a metal grate front. There are bulbs and wiring for a lighting system. The single piece of glass missing from the front door is in the right-hand top floor room. In the ground floor left-hand room a white-painted set of shelves is attached to the wall. In the second-floor left-hand room, is a boxed-in metal water tank on the left-hand wall, with a metal pipe leading from the far wall to it. Inside the house was a set of bedroom furniture (record no. 665943). Total number of items is 3.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Nina Hooley in 1976. It was second hand when given to the donor in 1919, when she was 6 years old.
Marks and inscriptions
Middle second-floor window: TO LET
Makers and roles
G. & J. Lines Ltd , maker